WILFRIDO TERRAZAS
Flutist/Improviser/Composer
Photo: Rogelio Nobara
...una bestia de metal y aire...
La Jornada Michoacán, 2004.
Terrazas is able to scavenge and find beauty in what is left.
Max Go, 2007.
Un sonido asimétrico, que rechina, que vocifera hasta el límite, que es libre de principio a fin. Y lo mejor de ese sonido es que te exige, al escucharlo, que tú también lo seas, que tú también rompas el molde, salgas de lo convencional.
Gabriel Trujillo, 2011.
That Wilfrido is -pardon me- a mother fucker.
Roscoe Mitchell, 2011.
You turned the flute into an extreme sport.
Theodora, a 17-year-old flute student from Kefalonia, Greece, 2012.
Sensei del viento.
Georgina Derbez, 2012.
Un portento musical con barbas.
Jaime Cháidez Bonilla, 2015.
You're like my third soulmate on this planet.
Anne La Berge, 2016.
I'd say Wilfrido Terrazas is a Mexican revolutionary.
Andrew Drury, 2016.
Every time you walk into a room you change people's lives.
Claire Chase, 2017.
...spot-on rendering of the desert wind...
Steven Schick, 2018.
Wilfrido Terrazas just shattered me. So unbelievably moving.
Nicholas Deyoe, 2018.
Professor Terrazas' compositions are innovative. To be honest, when I first started listening, they sounded a bit bizarre. However, as I listened more, the improvisations with flute gave me the feeling of being integrated into ever-changing nature.
Chu Li, a student in my Mexican folk music class at UCSD, 2020.
Wilfrido Terrazas continues to push the envelope for state-of-the-art contemporary flute performance.
Paul Muller, Sequenza 21, 2021.
What you do with the flute stretches tired and trusted definitions.
Allan Havis, 2021.
Artista necesario, Wilfrido es de los que amplían nuestra inteligencia sonora allende las fronteras.
Alonso Arreola, La Jornada Semanal, 2021.
Wilfrido Terrazas continues to build bridges of cultural understanding through the language of new music.
Paul Muller, Sequenza 21, 2022.
Wilfrido Terrazas es un ente del aire.
Abdel Anzaldúa, 2022.
Terrazas runs patterns through the air with his elucidated flute vignettes, rife with texture and emotion but seemingly searching for a different place to be. His technique is at the highest level, which allows him to play impossible motifs with an air of lightness.
Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis, 2022.
Para muchos de nosotros eres como de otro planeta, si no es que otro planeta en ti mismo.
Gabriela Maravilla, 2022.
What a joy to experience such truly masterful, exuberant, sensitive and unique musicianship.
Celeste Oram, 2023.
Terrazas—whose incredible circular-breathing extended technique produces a single, ten-minute breath—manipulates the resonance of the space between the instrument and his mouth. His breath seems to encapsulate the atmosphere of a whole world with a single pitch at its core. Terrazas achieves something rare in music: a performance stunning in its virtuosity and still aesthetically engaging and deeply moving.
Andrew Weathers, Southwest Contemporary, 2023.
Amazingly nasty flute playing.
Philip Montoro, 2024
Willy es un artista cuya educación e inteligencia resultan evidentes, pero esto no significa que se trate de un artista intelectualizado, su víscera y su expresividad individual, existencial, un sentido del humor y del drama, de lo juguetón en la ternura y la fragilidad, y la seriedad de su arte en una potencia lo caracterizan dentro de la epopeya, de una hazaña en estilo elevado lindando lo maravilloso con lo casi sobrenatural.
Erick Vázquez, El Escudo y el Espejo, 2024
Photo: Frida Hidalgo
